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Respected Soviet and Russian actor Leonid Bronevoi died in Moscow on December 9, 2017, at the age of 88. Born Leonid Solomonvitch Bronevoy on December 17, 1928 in Kiev, Ukrain he appeared in many Soviet films, most famously in the World War II spy thriller “Seventeen Moments of Spring”. He never played in a leading role, but was renowned as a talented supporting actor. He also was a prominent figure in Soviet and Russian theater. Bronevoi was the recipient of numerous professional and state honors, including the honorary title of People's Artist of the Soviet Union. His lone Euro-western was 1977’s “Armed and Dangerous: Times and Heroes of Bret Harte” as Piter Damfi.
Respected Soviet and Russian actor Leonid Bronevoi died in Moscow on December 9, 2017, at the age of 88. Born Leonid Solomonvitch Bronevoy on December 17, 1928 in Kiev, Ukrain he appeared in many Soviet films, most famously in the World War II spy thriller “Seventeen Moments of Spring”. He never played in a leading role, but was renowned as a talented supporting actor. He also was a prominent figure in Soviet and Russian theater. Bronevoi was the recipient of numerous professional and state honors, including the honorary title of People's Artist of the Soviet Union. His lone Euro-western was 1977’s “Armed and Dangerous: Times and Heroes of Bret Harte” as Piter Damfi.
*'''BUNUEL, Juan Luis''' - 11/9/1934, Île-de-France, France - 12/7/2017, Paris, , Île-de-France, France
Artist and filmmaker Juan Luis Buñuel, eldest son of Luis Buñuel, his assistant director for a decade and other filmmakers, including Orson Welles and Louis Malle died in Paris on December 7. He was. Before cinema and sculpture, he leaned towards photography. When he was 12 years old, he was given a camera, and during his life he took photos and kept them as if he were preserving an exceptional treasure, which he exhibited at the Buñuel de Calanda Center under the title 'Friends, shootings, encounters and some nonsense'. Juan Luis, under the protection of his father, made the leap towards the direction, both fiction films and documentaries. He was Assistant director on “Viva Maria!” (1965) and “Guns for San Sebastian” (1968) and director on “The Rebellion of the Hanged” (1986).
*'''REEVIS, Steve''' - 8/14/1962, Browning, Montana, U.S.A. - 12/7/2017, Missoula, Montana, U.S.A.
Native American actor (Blackfoot Tribe) Steve Reevis passed away December 7, 2017, at a hospital in Missoula, Montana. He was 56. Reevis was born on August 14, 1962 in Browning Montana. Among his three dozen films were the films he was featured in: "Twins," "Dances with Wolves," "Last of the Dogmen," "Fargo," and "The Longest Yard." Steve played Two Bears in 1993 Euro-western "Posse".





Revision as of 15:35, 7 January 2018

KÜLOWThis page is our personal hall of fame. A reminder to us all that even though considered a B-genre, Spaghetti Westerns were full of great characters, played by great people. Many have passed away, and while we are young growing up re-watching all these classics, many more will probably leave us. May they be remembered. What follows, is a work-in-progress, a growing list of legends who have passed away...

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FRESH GRAVES

  • SENECIC, Zeljko - 1/18/1933, Zagreb, Croatia, Yugoslavia - 1/2/2018, Zagreb, Croatia

Zeljko Senečić a prominent Croatian film and theater director, stage designer, painter, interior designer and screenwriter died in Zagreb, Croatia on January 2, 2018. He was born in Zagreb on January 18, 1933 and studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb. He graduated in the class of Professor Marijana Detoni in 1956, and by 1960 he was an associate of the master workshop Krste Hegedušić. The stage design at the Academy of Fine Arts ended in 1960. Zeljko was art director on 1973’s “The Hellhounds of Alaska”.


  • Di CLEMENTE, Giovanni (Antonio Di Clemente) - 1948, Rome, Lazio, Italy - 1/2/2018, Rome, Lazio, Italy

Italian producer Giovanni Di Clemente died in a Rome hospital on January 2, 2018. The winner of the David di Donatello for "We hope it's a girl". Among his most famous films "I picari", "Parenti serpenti" and "Pacco doppio pacco e contropaccotto". Born Antonio Di Clemente in Rome in 1948 he received a special David di Donatello award for all of his productions in 1996. Di Clemente was a production secretary on the 1972 Euro-western: “Beyond the Frontiers of Hate” starring Jeff Cameron.


  • HEATON, Tom (Thomas Heaton) - 1940, Bronx, New York, U.S.A. - 12/?/2017 Gibsons, British Columbia, Canada

American Actor Tom Heaton has died in Gibsons, British Columbia, Canada. He was 77. An actor, singer/songwriter and artist, Tom was born in 1940 and raised in the Bronx, NY when it was still a rural community. He appeared in 155 films and TV appearances from 1967 to 2009. Tom appeared in two Euro-westerns the TV series “Bordertown” (1989, 1990) and “Johnson County War” (2002).


  • HARTWIG. Wolf C. - 9/8/1921, Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany - 12/18/2017, Paris, Île-de-France, France

German producer Wolf C. Hartwig, best known for Sam Peckinpah’s 1977 blockbuster “Cross of Iron,” died in Paris on December 18, 2017 at the age of 98. Born on September 8, 1921 in Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Hartwig was a controversial figure within the Teutonic film biz given his role as the mogul behind a series of sexploitation movies. Hartwig’s career as a producer began in 1953 with a controversial WWII documentary and, while the style and subject-matter of his projects would change markedly over the next three decades, controversy remained at the core of most of his work. He truly believed there was no such thing as bad publicity. In the early ’60s Hartwig saw profit in the Near and Far East, where he would use European funding to bankroll international co-productions with projects shot in Asian countries. These films where often Westerns or based on popular pre-war pulp-fiction characters. In 1977 Hartwig produced his first big-budget blockbuster, Sam Peckinpah’s only war film, “Cross of Iron,” starring James Coburn, Maximilian Schell and James Mason. The picture was the most expensive German post-war film up to that point. And, although U.S. admissions were hampered by the concurrent release of “Star Wars,” the film took in Germany’s largest box-office returns since 1965’s “The Sound of Music.” Hartwig’s produced three Euro-westerns: “Black Eagle of Santa Fe” (1963), “Massacre at Marble City” (1964) and “Black Eagle of Santa Fe” (1965).


  • OSINAGA, Pedro (Pedrito Osinaga) - 12/15/1936, Pamplona, Navarre, Spain - 12/29/2017, Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Theater and film actor Pedro Osinaga died in Madrid, Spain on December 29th. He was 81. Osinaga was born Pedrito Osinaga in Pamplon, Navarre, Spain on December 15, 1936. He was one of Spain’s most popular stage actors, as proven by the jury of the XV Pepe Isbert Theater Award that was granted to him in June 2011. The actor confessed in 1988 that his professional career was possible only because he left his position with the regional soccer team of Pamplona where he played to go to Madrid to make a career as an interpreter. Osinaga appeared in only one Euro-western: “Murieta” (1965) as Claudio ‘Cucaracha’.


  • HUNTER, Thomas (Thomas O’Driscoll Hunter) - 12/19/1932, Savannah, Georgia, U.S.A. - 12/27/2017, Rowayton, Connecticut, U.S.A.

Thomas O’Driscoll Hunter died peacefully in his home in Rowayton, Connecticut, on Dec. 27, 2017. He was 85. Born in Savannah, Georgia, on December 19, 1932, he led a creative and adventurous life. He graduated from the University of Virginia with a degree in art and proudly served as a captain in the United States Marine Corps. In the late ’50s, he embarked on an exciting career as an actor, which led to a 10-year residence in Italy and a number of starring roles in “Spaghetti westerns” and other movies shot around the world. In Rome, he formed his own theater company and co-wrote the screenplays for the films “The Human Factor” and “The Final Countdown.” Upon returning to the United States, he wrote and directed plays, ran theater workshops and published a novel, “Softly Walks the Beast,” and an autobiography, “Memoirs of a Spaghetti Cowboy: Oddball Tales of Luck and Derring-Do.” Hunter appeared in three Euro-westerns: “The Hills Run Red” (1966), “Death Walks in Laredo” (1967) and the TV film “Carlos” (197).


  • BOLOGNINI, Manolo - 10/26/1925, Pistoia, Tuscany Italy - 12/23/2017, Rome, Lazio, Italy

Italian producer Manolo Bolgnini died of an apparent heart attack at his home Via Cassia in Rome, Italy today December 23rd. He was 92. Born in Pistoia, Tuscany, Italy on October 26, 1925, he was the brother of director Mauro Bolognini and the the producer of such films as “The Gospel According to Matthew”, “Django”, “Viva, Django”, “Texas, Adios”, “Boot Hill”, “The Forgotten Pistolero”, “Little Rita in the West”, “Keoma” and “California”.


  • GRAY, Bruce - 9/7/1936, San Juan, Puerto Rico - 12/13/2017, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.

Canadian actor Bruce Gray, who was a prolific presence on the stage and screen with roles including an investment banker on the series “Traders” and the hapless father of the groom in the film “My Big Fat Greek Wedding,” died of brain cancer on December 13th. Gray was born September 7, 1936 in San Juan Puerto Rico. to Canadian parents, who had relocated south to work in the insurance industry there. His parents decided to move back to Toronto when Gray was 13. He graduated from the University of Toronto with a master’s degree in psychology before getting into modelling and acting. He appeared as Henry Payne in the Euro-Western TV series “The Campbells” in 1990.


  • BRONEVOY, Leonid (Leonid Solomonvitch Bronevoy) - 12/17/1928, Kiev, Ukraine, U.S.S.R. - 12/9/2017, Moscow, Russia

Respected Soviet and Russian actor Leonid Bronevoi died in Moscow on December 9, 2017, at the age of 88. Born Leonid Solomonvitch Bronevoy on December 17, 1928 in Kiev, Ukrain he appeared in many Soviet films, most famously in the World War II spy thriller “Seventeen Moments of Spring”. He never played in a leading role, but was renowned as a talented supporting actor. He also was a prominent figure in Soviet and Russian theater. Bronevoi was the recipient of numerous professional and state honors, including the honorary title of People's Artist of the Soviet Union. His lone Euro-western was 1977’s “Armed and Dangerous: Times and Heroes of Bret Harte” as Piter Damfi.


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